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S. Korea to provide $1m in aid to quake-stricken Indonesia

South Korea will provide $1 million in humanitarian assistance to Indonesia where a massive earthquake and tsunami have killed hundreds of people, the foreign ministry said Sunday. The assistance ma...

Sept 30, 2018
Foreign Policy
Moon sends letter of condolence to quake-stricken Indonesia

President Moon Jae-in on Sunday sent a letter of condolence to Indonesia where a massive earthquake and tsunami killed more than 800 people. "I cannot suppress my sadness upon the news that the stro...

Sept 30, 2018
Foreign Policy
North Korea reiterates ‘corresponding measures’ at UN

North Korea wants sanctions relief as corresponding measure, experts say

Sept 30, 2018
Foreign Policy
FM Kang vows continued enforcement of sanctions on NK

WASHINGTON -- South Korea remains committed to enforcing sanctions on North Korea to pressure the regime to give up its nuclear weapons program, Seoul's top diplomat said Thursday. Speaking to the U...

Sept 28, 2018
Foreign Policy
Moon hints at disbanding Japanese-funded group for ‘comfort women’

Moon Jae-in directly addressed the issue of Japan’s wartime use of “comfort women” at the United Nations General Assembly, as he hinted at the possibility of disbanding a Japanese-funded foundation c...

Sept 27, 2018
Foreign Policy
Kang holds bilateral talks with Chinese, Japanese counterparts over peninsula peace

South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha has held bilateral talks with her Chinese and Japanese counterparts over Seoul's drive for inter-Korean rapprochement and peace, her office said Thursday...

Sept 27, 2018
Foreign Policy
Prime Minister Lee pays tribute to late Vietnamese president

HANOI -- South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon paid tribute to late Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang in Hanoi on Wednesday. Vietnam began a two-day national mourning that day for Quang, who die...

Sept 26, 2018
Foreign Policy
Leaders of S. Korea, Japan hold summit on bilateral ties, N. Korea

NEW YORK -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Tuesday in New York for talks on ways to improve their countries' ties and enhance their joint efforts to rid...

Sept 26, 2018
Foreign Policy
BTS at UN: Find your name and voice by speaking about yourself

Addressing a United Nations session as the first ever South Korean artists, the boy band BTS urged young people to find their own inner voice and see themselves through their own eyes by speaking abo...

Sept 25, 2018
Foreign Policy
Moon, Abe to hold bilateral summit this week

NEW YORK -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in will hold a bilateral summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this week, Moon‘s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday. The Moon-Abe meet...

Sept 24, 2018
Foreign Policy
S. Korea’s Moon arrives in New York for Trump summit, UN meeting

NEW YORK -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in New York on Sunday for a bilateral summit with US President Donald Trump that is partly aimed at brokering a second US-North Korea summit. T...

Sept 24, 2018
Foreign Policy
Key points of Kim’s commitments explained by Moon

Upon his return to Seoul after a three-day visit to Pyongyang for an inter-Korean summit, South Korean President Moon Jae-in offered details on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s commitments. One of ...

Sept 21, 2018
Foreign Policy
Inter-Korean summit kick-starts stalled nuclear talks

The US said it is prepared to resume talks with North Korea after the North agreed to dismantle its key missile facility and potentially its main nuclear complex at this week’s inter-Korean summit, k...

Sept 20, 2018
Foreign Policy
Looking back on its communist legacy, Romania supports inter-Korean peace

As the two Koreas join hands to forge lasting peace on the peninsula, achieving security and peace is impossible without dialogue, said former Romanian President Emil Constantinescu in Seoul, urging ...

Sept 20, 2018
Foreign Policy
Trump praises Korean summit, cites progress on North Korea

U.S. President Donald Trumphailed Wednesday‘s summit between North Korean leader Kim JongUn and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and said there had been “tremendous progress” with North Korea on s...

Sept 19, 2018
Foreign Policy

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